[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-05-27 Thread Jeremy Foshee
This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested in

[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-04-27 Thread Jeremy Foshee
Hi Sidnei, If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstr

[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-04-01 Thread Sidnei da Silva
Doesn't seem like the binary driver is much of an improvement, though it saves close to 1W. ** Attachment added: "PowerTOP debug output with binary nvidia driver instead of nouveau." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42805932/powertop-nvidia-idle.log -- multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W

[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-04-01 Thread Stefan Bader
The biggest suspect of power usage on my list would be gfx card. And it might well be that the nouveau drivers are less efficient there. Maybe you could try to install the binary only drivers for nvidia and see whether this make a difference for you. -- multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W o

[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-04-01 Thread Stefan Bader
So at least the wakeups now look not too bad in all cases. And actually the default seems to produce the best power usage of 17W. Still this seems like a high value. The only thing stringing out here is the 100% usage of the card reader. On the other hand it feels unlikely this really should cause

[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-04-01 Thread Sidnei da Silva
** Attachment added: "PowerTOP debug output with default kernel options." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42788060/powertop-standard-idle.log -- multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-04-01 Thread Sidnei da Silva
** Attachment added: "PowerTOP debug output with 'maxcpus=1'." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42788011/powertop-single-core-idle.log -- multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-04-01 Thread Sidnei da Silva
** Attachment added: "PowerTOP debug output with 'processor.max_cstate=1'." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42787850/powertop-max-cstate-1-idle.log -- multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55 You received this bug notification because you are a me

[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-04-01 Thread Sidnei da Silva
PowerTOP debug output with 'processor.max_cstate=2'. All superfluous services were stopped (postgres, landscape-client, pommed). Taken from a VT, before logging in to GDM. ** Attachment added: "PowerTOP debug output with 'processor.max_cstate=2'." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42787794/powerto

[Bug 553333] Re: multicore macbook power-hungry, using 18W on idle

2010-04-01 Thread Sidnei da Silva
** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42787327/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "AplayDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42787328/AplayDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42787329/BootDmesg.txt ** Att